ICO Market. Weekly Review. April 6,

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1 ICO Market Weekly Review April 6,

2 Welcome to ICO Market Weekly Review. This report aims to be your guide to the ICO market and the blockchain community and is based on the data that we carefully gather at ICObench. Increasing popularity of initial coin offering as the means of funding a startup brought particular attention to the ICO market and made the blockchain community grow drastically. In this situation, it is crucial not only for the investors but also for the media and research agencies to have a trustful and complete source of information about the ICO market. With over 2,700 projects and 40,000 professional profiles in enterprise and blockchain published on the platform, we can ensure a clear outlook of the market and its community. We have processed and organised a huge amount of data for this report to show you the ICO market and its community s widely differing sides - specifically ICO market size for a variety of industries, projects trending this week and countries leading in crypto. We hope that the data in the report will be useful to you and your audience. We are happy to have you with us and are looking forward to your feedback on what other information you would like to see in the ICO Market Weekly Review. ICObench Team

3 Table of content 1. ICO Market Overview Top 5 ICOs completed recently Top 5 ICOs completed in March Top 5 ICOs to date Top countries on the ICO market Top platforms used by ICOs 8 2. Trending ICOs Top 5 ongoing ICOs Top 5 ICOs launched this week ICO market size ICO market size per week ICO market size per month for the past 12 months ICO market size per industry for the past 12 months ICO market performance ICO performance rate for the past 12 months ICO performance rate by industry Top 10 completed ICOs by ROI up to date Top ICOs completed in March 2018 by ROI Blockchain community Top 10 People of blockchain Top 10 ICObench experts Top 10 ICO agencies ICO Market Insider 21 3

4 1. ICO Market Overview As a rating platform, we pay more attention to best ranking ICOs. Our evaluation system is based on a combination of the ICO profile rating based on our own algorithm that uses more than 20 different criteria and the ratings provided by the independent experts. On the other hand, it is highly important how much a project raised during its ICO and how the number and the value of the ratings could affect the number of funds raised. In this section, we try to build a picture of this interrelationship Top 5 ICOs completed recently ICO Funds raised ICO Rating #1 Current $36,000,000 #1 Truegame 4.8 #2 Sapien $10,501,153 #2 TimeBox 4.8 #3 Bitto Exchange $1,104,454 #3 VRT 4.7 #4 Fabric Token $1,035,986 #4 Pecunio 4.7 #5 VISO $1,000,000 By the amount of funds raised #5 Midex 4.7 By rating ICO Rating Funds raised ICO #Ratings #1 Sapien 4.5 $10,501,153 #1 Truegame 75 #2 Current 4.2 $36,000,000 #2 StopTheFakes 55 #3 GN Compass 4.2 $503,062 #3 skychain 45 #4 VISO 3,9 $1,000,000 #4 MoneyToken 43 #5 Fabric Token 3.6 $1,035,986 By rating and amount of funds raised #5 VinChain 43 By the number of ratings 4

5 1.2. Top 5 ICOs completed in March 2018 ICO Funds raised ICO Rating #1 Datawallet $40,000,000 #1 OnPlace 4.7 #2 Refereum $40,000,000 #2 VeriME 4.6 #3 4NEW $35,000,000 #3 Faceter 4.6 #4 JET8 $32,706,262 #4 Friendz 4.6 #5Play2Live $30,000,000 By the amount of funds raised #5 Handelion 4.5 By rating ICO Rating Funds raised ICO #Ratings #1 Friendz 4.6 $12,318,762 #1 Friendz 67 #2 IP Sharing Exchange 4.5 $8,015,720 #3 Play2Live 4.4 $40,000,000 #4 Sentinel Chain 4.4 $14,400,000 #5 AdHive 4.3 $12,000,000 #2 Faceter 63 #3 AdHive 52 #4 Gilgamesh Platform 50 #5 TokenStars TEAM 49 By the number of ratings By rating and amount of funds raised 5

6 1.3. Top 5 ICOs to date ICO name Raised ICO name Rating #1 HDAC $258,000,000 #1 Nebulas 4,7 #2 Filecoin $257,000,000 #2 GIFTO 4.7 #3 Tezos $232,000,000 #3 OnPlace 4.7 #4 EOS $185,000,000 #4 Hive Project 4.6 #5 Sirin Labs $ 157,885,825 By the amount of funds raised #5 VeriME 4.6 By rating ICO name Rating Funds raised ICO name #Ratings #1 Nebulas 4,7 $60,000,000 #1 WePower 84 #2 GIFTO 4,7 $30,000,000 #2 Friendz 67 #3 TraDove 4,6 $52,000,000 #4 Friendz 4,6 $12,318,762 #3 Faceter 63 #4 Medicalchain 60 #5 Hive Project 4,6 $8,949,421 By both rating and amount of funds raised #5 AdHive 52 By the number of ratings 6

7 1.4. Top countries on the ICO market 77, 1 ICOs per 1M people 123 ICOs #by the number of ICOs #by the number of ICOs per 1 million people $ 1, 126, 603, 284 #by raised funds 14, 3 ICOs per 1M people #by the number of ICOs per 1 million people 238 ICOs #by the number of ICOs $ 466, 963, 859 #by raised funds 221 ICOs #by the number of ICOs $ 450, 645, 027 #by raised funds 415 ICOs #by the number of ICOs 22, 0 ICOs per 1M people #by the number of ICOs per 1 million people $ 2, 442, 780, 643 #by raised funds 16, 8 ICOs per 1M people #by the number of ICOs per 1 million people 187 ICOs #by the number of ICOs $ 788, 081, 150 #by raised funds 31, 9 ICOs per 1M people #by the number of ICOs per 1 million people Countries & Platforms The ICO market has its leaders presented not only as projects but also as countries and the platforms the project teams build their ICOs on. The map above shows the countries those became leaders in the following criteria: the number of ICOs, the number of ICOs per 1 million people, and the total sum of funds raised by the projects from the country. As you can see, Ethereum has become a market standard. At the same time, today many projects base their products on Waves platform and other runners-up. 7

8 1.5. Top platforms used by ICOs Platform ICOs % Avg.rating Avg.raised #1 Ethereum 2, % 3.2 $2,994,337 #2 Waves % 2.5 $1,028,305 #3 Stellar % 3.6 $3,214,286 #4 NEO % 3.8 $5,004,380 #5 Separate blockchain % 3.2 $3,226,574 #6 NEM % 3.2 $1,273,249 #7 Scrypt % 2.3 $ 0 #8 Ethereum and Waves % 2.4 $422,222 #9 Bitcoin % 2.0 $7,897 #10 Bitshares % 2.3 $1,200,624 8

9 2. Trending ICOs The ICO market is changing every day, crowning the projects those succeed to reach the perfect combination of team, vision, and product as well as the hype around them and leaving the losers behind. In this section, we provide this week s leaders of the market according to their mark and the number of ratings on our platform Top 5 ongoing ICOs ICO name Rating ICO name Rating #1 Sharpay 4.9 #1 Sharpay 70 #2 Root Blockchain 4.9 #2 StopTheFakes 55 #3 ZeroState 4.9 #3 skychain 45 #4 EiraCube 4.8 #4 Dorado 44 #5 Paymon 4.8 By raiting #5 MINER ONE 44 By number of ratings 2.2. Top 5 ICOs launched this week ICO name Rating ICO name #Ratings #1 EiraCube 4.8 #2 Enlte 4.8 #3 Quant Network 4.6 #4 Photochain 4.6 #5 MYDFS 4.5 By rating #1 OTPPAY 30 #2 EiraCube 24 #3 Dbrain 22 #4 Enlte 20 #5 McFly.aero 16 By the number of ratings 9

10 3. ICO market size The initial coin offering has become one of the fastest growing means of investment by the end of The size of ICO market had its ups and downs over 2017 and, at the moment, has slightly lowered after the peak in December. In this section, we wanted to give you the big picture of the size of the market, split into two major categories: market size per month and week and the market size per industry ICO market size per week Week #ICOs Funds raised Avg.funds raised/ico Mar 26, Apr 2, $43,550,000 $348,400 Mar 19, Mar 26, $114,145,596 $2,113,807 Mar 12, Mar 19, $188,144,580 $4,276,013 Mar 5, Mar 12, $140,263,502 $5,009,411 10

11 3.2. ICO market size per month for the past 12 months Month #ICOs Funds raised Avg.Funds raised March $486,103,678 $1,841,302 February $849,501,256 $5,552,296 January $1,129,623,401 $14,863,466 December $1,572,316,266 $16,044,044 November $749,891,547 $11,536,793 October $852,713,991 $13,323,656 September $865,540,994 $16,971,392 August $346,748,662 $8,668,717 July $434,948,461 $15,533,874 June $764,356,908 $ 12, 042, 831 May $228,813,793 $12,042,831 #ICOs Funds raised Avg.Funds raised 11

12 3.3. ICO market size per industry for the past 12 months Category #ICOs Raised Avg. raised Platform 1,150 $4,346,163,117 $3,779,272 Cryptocurrency 921 $3,089,798,614 $3,354,830 Business services 558 $1,581,510,346 $2,834,248 Investment 440 $1,095,661,629 $2,490,140 Software 363 $1,106,188,826 $3,047,352 Smart Contract 292 $93,130,745 $318,941 Internet 272 $594,219,349 $2,184,630 Entertainment 254 $658,570,810 $2,592,798 Banking 238 $1,351,993,126 $5,680,643 Infrastructure 232 $655,397,706 $2,824,990 Communication 194 $268,067,628 $1,381,792 Big Data 177 $166,401,711 $940,123 Artificial Intelligence 166 $85,818,905 $516,981 Media 142 $329,153,589 $2,317,983 Retail 127 $351,754,267 $2,769,719 Health 118 $124,331,786 $1,053,659 Real estate 93 $142,226,094 $1,529,313 Education 82 $62,776,583 $765,568 (see the next page) 12

13 Category #ICOs Raised Avg. raised Other 80 $108,058,211 $1,350,728 Tourism 76 $21,201,744 $278,970 Casino & Gambling 75 $110,317,887 $2,285,371 Sports 68 $ 110,317,887 $1,622,322 Energy 63 $239,438,306 $3,800,608 Manufacturing 58 $146,726,490 $2,529,767 Virtual Reality 55 $ 11,650,000 $211,818 Charity 44 $15,854,305 $360,325 Legal 40 $ 0 $ 0 Electronics 38 $216,669,734 $5,701,835 Art 29 $ 23,011,290 $793,493 13

14 4. ICO market performance There are two factors of financial success for any ICO: reaching their hard cap during the initial coin offering and having a big ROI (return on investment) after it. In this section, we show the market s situation by the performance rate and ROI for the past 12 months and for all industries represented on our platform ICO performance rate for the past 12 months 2018 % reached HC % reached SC 14

15 4.2. ICO performance rate by industry Category Raised ICOs % reached SC % reached HC 1. Platform $4,346,163, % 20.96% 2. Cryptocurrency $3,089,798, % 15.85% 3. Business services $1,581,510, % 17.38% 4. Investment $1,095,661, % 14.32% 5. Software $1,106,188, % 17.63% 6. Smart Contract $93,130, % 3.08% 7. Internet $594,219, % 12.87% 8. Entertainment $658,570, % 18.11% 9. Banking $1,351,993, % 17.23% 10. Infrastructure $655,397, % 14.22% 11. Communication $268,067, % 12.37% 12. Big Data $166,401, % 6.78% 13. Artificial Intelligence $85,818, % 3.61% 14. Media $329,153, % 15.49% 15

16 Category Raised ICOs % reached SC % reached HC 15. Retail $351,754, % 11.81% 16. Health $124,331, % 7.63% 17. Real estate $142,226, % 13.98% 18. Education $62,776, % 6.10% 19. Other $108,058, % 18.75% 20. Tourism $21,201, % 9.21% 21. Casino & Gambling $110,317, % 22.67% 22. Sports $110,317, % 17.65% 23. Energy $239,438, % 20.63% 24. Manufacturing $146,726, % 10.34% 25. Virtual Reality $11,650, % 1.82% 26. Charity $15,854, % 2.27% 27. Legal $ % 0.00% 28. Electronics $216,669, % 10.53% 29. Art $23,011, % 10.34% 16

17 4.3. Top 10 completed ICOs by ROI up to date ICO Token Ended Rating ICO price Current price ROI #1 NEO NEO Sep 7th, USD USD 164,090.62% #2 Emphy EPY Nov 5th, USD USD 107,674.95% #3 Emiratecoin EMC Dec 24th, , USD 2.47 USD 24,578.00% #4 Circles CRC Oct 18th, USD 0.79 USD 5,180.03% #5 Populous PPT Jul 24th, USD USD 5,033.01% #6 Bitquence BQX Jul 16th, USD 1.52 USD 4,385.85% #7 Neblio NEBL Aug 20th, , USD 8.56 USD 4,109.85% #8 OmiseGO OMG Jul 23rd, , USD 9.33 USD 3,985.67% #9 STK STK Feb 14th, , USD 4.68 USD 2,237.75% #10 Golem GNT Nov 13th, USD 0.22 USD 2,022.41% 4.4. Top ICOs completed in March 2018 by ROI ICO Token Ended Rating ICO price Current price ROI #1 Edgeless EDG Mar 21st, USD 0.53 USD 1,136.80% #2 Cappasity CAPP Mar 22nd, USD 0.03 USD % 17

18 5. Blockchain community 5.1. Top 10 People of Blockchain #1 #2 #3 Simon Cocking Ian Scarffe David Drake ISS 56 ICOs ISS 42 ICOs ISS 46 ICOs #4 #5 #6 #7 Vladimir Nikitin Jason Hung Nathan Christian Reuben Godfrey ISS 35 ICOs ISS 29 ICOs ISS 26 ICOs 78.6 ISS 2 ICOs #8 #9 #10 Michael Terpin Nikolay Shkilev Richard Kastelein 75.0 ISS 20 ICOs 70.8 ISS 16 ICOs 59.3 ISS 15 ICOs 18

19 5.2. Top 10 ICObench experts #1 #2 #3 Jason Hung Nikolay Zvezdin Nathan Christian / / /100 Rating Reviews Weight Rating Reviews Weight Rating Reviews Weight #4 #5 Ian Scarffe Richard Kastelein #6 Douglas Lyons #7 Vladimir Nikitin /100 Rating Reviews Weight / /100 Rating Reviews Weight Rating Reviews Weight /100 Rating Reviews Weight #8 #9 #10 P.B. Stanton Esq. Mofassair Hossain Luca Cotta / / /100 Rating Reviews Weight Rating Reviews Weight Rating Reviews Weight 19

20 5.3. Top 10 ICO agencies Agency ISS #ICOs #1 AmaZix #2 ICOBOX #3 FoxTail Marketing #4 Ambisafe #5 ROQ Media #6 Tokenget #7 Crynet #8 7MARKETZ 47,1 11 #9 BitCoinSuisse #10 TokenSuite

21 6. ICO Market Insider We have asked our top experts to comment on the market trends and give their forecast for the upcoming week. Simon Cocking The crypto world faces interesting times. This week represents a continuation of these trends. Many new, smaller ICOs are facing a more nervous market of investors. Deliberations from the SEC are causing anxiety, even though in many ways they could herald a higher quality investing experience for new investors. Several larger ICOs have still had great success in attracting the investment they were seeking. Whether ICOs are big or small it is still vital to have all of the relevant digital assets prepared, and a smart, logical marketing strategy. Without this, in a noisy and competitive market it will be difficult to achieve the desired ICO funding targets. At the same time, behind the scenes many significant family wealth investment companies are preparing to rapidly scale up their own investment commitments in the blockhain and ICO sector, so if an ICO has the right stuff, then 2018, even now, could be a successful time for it. Editor in Chief Cryptocoin.News Ian Scarffe Blockchain ICO Consultant / Advisor. Founder at Crypto Consulting and Investments LTD was off to a record start with the number of Blockchain startups and the success of fundraising by means of Initial Coin Offerings, especially noting the success of Tradove, who raised a record $52,000,000. The current state of the market is relatively low due to many factors including the financial markets having a 200-Day below average, some banning of ICO advertising, and the current decrease in value of Bitcoin. Since March 2018 we have not seen any major surge in the price of Bitcoin or Ethereum and other minor cryptocurrencies. The drop in the price of Bitcoin in early March has also a flow on effect into other cryptocurrencies. It is not the first time, and I believe it won t be the last time we will see such a highs and lows of cryptocurrency and the follow on effect for investment into token offerings and cryptocurrencies. We experienced a similar slump in the market last year in August when the Bitcoin Cash fork madness took place. The good news (in my opinion) is that the market will pick back up. I believe the current market situation is a bit cumbersome. There have been reports that bigger investors have been pushing down the market as a whole. There was the Mt.Gox selloff a while ago that was a factor as well. I still maintain that cryptocurrencies as a whole have a bright future as the innovation in this space continues to evolve, but we have to be aware that the market is still violate as ever. Nathan Christian Blockchain Technology Consultant 21

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